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Article: Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's 'Brutinae Quaestiones.'
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1994
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James J. Murphy, ed. Brutinae Quaestiones. Trans. Carole Newlands. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1992. lvi + 272 pp. $24.50 cloth; 13.95 paper.
While there is an abundance of secondary literature pertaining to Peter Ramus (1515-1572), relatively few of his many works are available in modern editions or have been reprinted, and almost none have been translated into English. This edition and translation of Ramus's Brutinae quaestiones (Questions of Brutus) will be valuable to scholars and teachers alike.
James J. Murphy's introduction to this volume begins (vii-ix) by noting the storm of controversy which Ramus set off in the 1540's through his attacks on ...